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The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

A fellow has been swindling people in
New Brunswick by selling them Confeder-
ate notes at prices ranging from twelve to
thirty dollars thousand. Even this Con-
federate money was counterfeit. A Cana
dian officer arrested the man, but let him go
on the novel ground that the people swim
died were just as great frauds and much
bigger FOOLS" and that the fellow "had
really been giving some value for the
money" If counterfeit Confederate bill
has ,n.sqme value" in Canada an original
Dixie shin-plaster must command an envia-
hle nremium over the line.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The proposed attempt to cut short Mr..
Keifer's Grafton at the unwilling of the Gar
field statue by drowning his voice with ar
tillery was not made. 1t would have been
an outrageous insult not only to the orator
but to the memory of the dead President.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

During the last year there has been a
marked decrease in malarial and contagious
diseases in the city of Providence. The lead
ing physicians say that malaria is undoubt-
edly on the decline, and that in compare
lively brief period it will, it is altogether
probable, have taken its departure from
Providence and vicinity; and of contagious
diseases, such as scarlet fever, diphtheria,
measles, ETC., the decrease in the number of
cases has been very rapid, SO much SO that
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

Another famous trial is soon to come on,
in which the temperance cause is involved
At Jackson, the capital of Mississippi a
young man named Roderick Gambrel con-
Quoted prohibition paper. Colonel Jones
Hamilton took two other men in buggy and
RUNNING down Gambrell in the highway
shot him In cold blood. The assassination
at the time was credited to ''the State house
ring and the lawless element that rally
round it," Whatever ring" or element
may be responsible it is certain that the sa-
loon is behind it all. And like Rev. Mr..
Haddock, who was killed in Iowa, and DR..
Northrop, whom the saloon keepers of an
Ohio village shot, Editor Gambrell, wheth-
err his murderers shall be punished or not,
will be another martyr, whose killing will be
90 I'd to the long list of iniquities which the
on interests of this country are piling up
1st themselves
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

Not long ago the Newfoundland Assembly
passed bin refusing to French fishermen
the right to buy bait in the ports OF the IS
land. When tho hiil---vHt 10 England for
ar--vyaf the home government vetoed it on
the ground that such prohibition if imme-
diately enforced would break up the fishing
season for the French. But delegation of
Newfoundland statesmen have prevailed on
the home government to revoke its veto The
necessity Of such bill arose from the fact
that the French government pays subsidy
to its fishermen to encourage them in the
long expedition which they make across the
Atlantic. Aided by this subsidy they have
been driving the fish caught by the New
foundlapd fishermen out of the market. The
latter think that by depriving the French
men of the right to buy fresh bait in New
foundland they lessen this competition.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The Belfast Age is highly pleased with
the free trade, free rum and anti-ciyil ser
vice reform of the Kentucky Democrats, and
thinks it the kind Of platform the National
Democracy should adopt. Doubtless the
Age.voices the sentiment of the majority of
the Democracy of Maine
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The determined way in which the respect
able people of Baltimore have set to work to
purify elections in that city has evidently
frightened Senator German. At meeting
of the Democratic Central Committee the
other day he made his appearance for the
first time in the role of reformer, and ap-
pealed to the committee to avoid even the
shadow Of suspicion Of fraud. He admitted
that elections in Maryland cities in the past
had sometimes been attended with corrupt
practices and pleaded for adiscontinuance of
them. This spectacle of Satan lebuking sin
made some of his audience smile, as well it
might. 1t is to be hoped that the Senator's
reformation is genuine and permanent, but
it will be wise precaution to keep him
scared, lest his conversion be of the death
bed variety which is very liable to disappear
If the patient gets well.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

Pennsylvania is going to try high license.
Both houses Of the Legislature have passed
the bill, and 1t now only needs the signature
Of the Governor to make it law. That it is
pretty certain to get.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The business of the internal revenue OFF,
Ger Of this district, according to Collector
Redman, is falling off very fast. Pretty soon
Deputy Collector Cromwell will be able to
20 to dinner.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY IA.

Massachusetts newspapers complain be-
cause their legislators spend much time
watching base ball games.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

Editor o'Brien receives very polite invi-
tation not to visit Toronto, which he will
probably decline without thanks.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The woman suffrage bill has failed in the
Pennsylvania legislature. The Senate passed
it, but the House defeated it.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

BY the high society Of England America is
much admired for its beautiful women and
Buffalo Bill.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14
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The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

For many reasons, the novels Of Mr. George
appreciation; and their fame has delayed to
cross the Atlantic even after the fellow
countrymen of the novelist had recognized
his unique and powerful gift His art is
primarily, that of the philosopher, and the
form of fiction in which he embodies his
studies of English society, although brilliant
full OF color and suggestion, does not render
them light or easy reading. Beauchamp's
Career Boston: Roberts Brothers. is a pic
ture of the political and social high life of
England; and although it would be unfair
to call Mr.. Meredith a cynic, it must be con-
fessed that the atmosphere of his work is
not exhilarating. The compactness and va
riety Of thought, wit and fancy are amazing;
the characters-men and women, seem to
have an existence Of their own, beyond the
mere pages of the novel; and yet, strange as
it may seem, one instinctively feels that with
all this wealth of literary skill, this power
full play of a superbly trained mind, the au-
thor falls short of the highest art from lack
of Imagination. He sees the world and its
inhabitants, but not the aureole of possible
ties that hangs over the head Of each one of
them. Mr. Meredith's literary style is diff
cult to follow, and not wholly to be COM
mended, still less initiated; yet one would
look long through the pages of contemporary
liant impressionism of his phrases.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14
CONCERNING BOOKS.
BIZ e. cAvAzzA.

The anonymous author Of The Kernel and
the Husk, series of letters upon Spiritual
Christianity, conimends himself at once by
the liberal thought and unflinching ardor for
truth which are everywhere apparent in his
volume. While he finds it needful for the
satisfaction Of his own mind to reject or give
new significance to certain ideas which have
formed part of the belief of the greater num-
Der OF Christians, his attitude and spirit are
entirely reverent and possessed by feryor
that has nothing in common with the chilly
inertness of agnosticism. He gives emphatic
warning against the habit Of regarding the
world as dispassionate and slightly bored
critic might look on at a comedy. or with the
mere intellectual interest of student of his
tory. For pure reason, he would substitute
the power of faith, which is compounded Of
philosophy and experience and glorifed by
imagination. which he rightly considers to
be the noblest endowment of the mind I'M
agination indeed iulfils perfectly the defini-
milton Of faith which gives substance to un-
| seen things; and has the power, not only to
| lift mems minds to hope for the things of the
| future, but to lead-to quick sympathy with
the minds Of others, and hence to increase
the quantity and quality of the trust and
| goodwill upon which society is founded. The
| continual dependence of science, even in its
mathematical formulas. upon the suggestions
of imagination; the necessity of faith in
something unseen as factor in problems
| apparently the most practical, is a theory
finely developed in this series of letters
While there is undoubtedly much in the vol
ume that will not be found acceptable te
those in whom the conservative instinct is
strong, to large class of sincere minds moi
| able to reconcile the condition of the world
as they see it with the techicalities of creeds
and who yet are unsatisfed to remain in the
dark and doubtful camp of the unbelievers
these letters with their brilliant philosophy
and eager acquiescence in the essential spiri
of Christianity win not fail to be of grea
comfort and benefit Boston: Roberts Broth
ers; Portland: Loring, Short & HARMONY
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

A new novel by Mr.. Thomas Hardy is an
event in literature, and one would wish to
have nothing but praise for his Woodland
ers New York: Harper q Brothers; Port
land Loring, Short & Harmony But when
an Anglo-Saxon romancist deliberately ig-
nores ethics, he is sure to make an awkward
piece OF work. The bad hero of the Wood
landers, Edgar .Fitzpiers, begins rather in
terestingly as a young physician whose i'm
mature science has confused his ideas. and
who naiyely divides the universe into the
Me and the Not Me. Then he meets the
heroine Grace Melbury, whose naturally
pleasing, but not oyer-strong intellect has
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14
PARLOR SUITS.

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The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

In refreshing contrast to the volume last
reviewed is the translation of Sigrid, an
idyllic story by Jon Thordsson Thoroddsen,
one of the foremost poets of Iceland. The
perfect poise and simplicity of its art is a
triumph of realism informed by the spirit of
poetry; and it has the quality of magma
ton, the grave beauty of detail, that charm
the reader of the Morse legends included in
Mr.. William Morriss Earthly Paradise. 1t
is the prose of a poet and also of patriot,
who sees the hope of his country in such
honest lives of men and women as he de-
scribes. After following the story of Sig
rid's life, alone with her sheep on the hill, or
among the cares and festivals of the village,
or the society of an Icelandic city, the reader
has gained acquaintance and sympathy with
people that before seemed far off and
strange, and is greatly enriched thereby.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & co.,
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14
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The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The Tragedy of Brinkwater, by Martha
Livingstone Moodey NewYork Cassell &
Co.; Portland: Loring, Short g. Harmon) is
somewhat sensational story of muder and
the consequent detective business. 1t is
perhaps of average literary merit, and .will
not fail to find readers among those who
like to have their nerves strung and I'M
stlung by fictitious horrors.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

And now from Iceland and from China
the reader shall wend homeward by way of
New Jersey, and delay there awhile to share
the pleasant discoveries which DR.. Charles
G. Abbot has made in his Wasteland Wan
behring's. This is one of the healthful stud
les of outdoor life that quicken the readers
interest in common things, and give him the
clue to numerous fresh enjoyments. There
is cheerful philosophy which, underlying
Dr. Abbott's studies of weeds and water
snakes and meadow-mice, is attractive and
contagious. His observation and notes are
keen and careful, and he has nothing of the
self-conscious recluse in his communings
with Nature. They are the expression of
the frank love of man for his mother Earth.
and his interest and liking for his human
kind and for the humber folk that go in
feathers and fur, or that spin cocoons in the
sun, or dalt under the ripples of the rivers.
New York: Harper & Brothers; Portland:
Loring Short & Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

The Buchholtz Family, translated from the
German by Herr Julius Stinde-of which the
second volume is received from the publish
ers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York, Portland Loring, Short & HARMONY
lis an amusing and unique group of
sketches. They are remarkable for their
quiet good humor, and the shrewd obserya-
tion of everyday German life; their realism
has nothing supercilious or cynical in it, and
the reader maryels at the transformations
dramatic power of the author, who sees the
affairs and society of a busy German city,
not as man of letters, but through the
round blue eyes of a supplemented hauS-
frau, good wife, mother and neighbor. 1t is
one of those books where the efficiency of art
conceals its art; and whoever enjoys genial
volume to tempt him to occasional laughter,
will not choose amiss if he read the Buch-
holtz Family.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

If We desire to witness prodigies and to behold
marvels
Be not concerned as to whether mountains are
distant or the rivers far away,
is the motto which Mr. Lafcadio Hearn has
chosen from the writings of poet of the
Flowery Kingdom as an introduction to his
volume of stories about Some Chinese Ghosts.
These stories are told in singularly poetic
fashion, the rhythmic flexible prose flashes
like the links of a jewelled chain. A singu-
larry impressive story is that of the potter
who fuses his body in the furnace to give
life to his porcelain; and the same mystic
idea is repeated with even more power in
the Soul of the Bell. The legend of the
fairy wife is more akin to the spirit of West
ern folklore. The tradition of the Tea
Plant becomes meretricius in departing
from the simplicity of the original legend.
The beauty of form and subtle sense of light
and color that pervade the book eliminate
in the strange catalogue of porcelains, a true
rhapsody of ceramics. Boston: Roberts
Brothers, Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon)
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

been sophisticated by fashionable boarding
schools; and the materials are ready for
clever romance. Instead, Mr. Hardy allows
his hero to develop, unrebuked into the most
unnaturally heartless villain; and the read
er is disguised and wearied. The heroine is
as devoid of reason and impulse as wooden
doll; and the hysterical enchantress is drawn
with timid and heavy touch. Meanwhile
there moves beside these puppets. one of the
most exquisite figures of modern fiction,
Marty South, the wood-girl; and her old
father also is sylvan creature whose life is
at one with the life of the leaves; and whose
death comes with the bending and fall of a
great elm. Marty South is veritable dry
ad, not outlined with any false classicism,
but with force of imagination nearly akin
to the ancient minds of the makers of myths.
Nothing could exceed the beauty and pathos
of the wood-girls' lament at the grave of
Giles Winterbourne, the man Of her love,
who had died to shield Grace. whose light
| facile soul was incapable of understanding
| his wasted affection. A more thorough ex-
| ample of the best and worst of Mr.. Hardy's
fine genius could scarcely be imagined than
| The Woodianders.
| In Mr.. William Blacks new novel, Sabi-
| ma Zembra, appears type of young woman
which is a product OF our tentative century.
Sweet Sabina is full of all kindliness and
charity: she studies nursing in hospita
gives of her goods and her smiles right and
left; follows her philanthropic theories, ig-
nores her own instincts and her own heart,
| and comes near making shipwreck of her
| life and of that of one of the noblest lovers
| that modern fiction has to show. One adj
| mires Mr.. Blacks courage of truthfulness
in letting his heroine marry the young jock.
| ey for whose broken knee she, quite unnec,
| essarily, feels responsible. But not even
Mr.. Blacks joyous art of writing dialogue as
brilliant as natural, nor his matchless notes
of a landscape painter-of which, by the
way, he gives in this volume enough and no
too much-nor even his skill in development
of character. can reconcile the reader to sucl
length of companionship with the jockey il
process of deterioration. His career nigh
well have been closed earlier, even at tn,
loss of several chapters of the novel. But i
must be said in justice to Fred Foster tina
he was not an all-round villain, and that il
certain scenes he figures in finely dramatic
fashion. Mrs. Fairservice is person whom
Mr.. Black had no right to introduce to hi
circle of readers and admirers. With tn
thoroughness of trained artist, he take
full notes in the line of proposed work
but he will pardon the sugges ton that hi
most sympathetic portraits are those of per
sons worthy of his art, the noble and charm
ing figures that have moved through tn
pages of his former novels, and to their mum
Der may well be added jamie and Philip, an,
Walter Lindsay and Sabina Zembra, who's
pity and love at last reward her faithful
knight New York. Harper & Brothers
Portland: Loring, Short g. Harmon.
The Portland daily press., 1887-05-14

We have a small lot COY No. IL Solid Walnut ten
piece Chamber Sets, consisting of Bedstead. Blu
reau and Glass, Combination COmmode Table,
four Walnut Chairs and Rocker, and Towel Rack,
with best White Italian Marble Tops, the whole
set beautifully finished which we shall sell, de-
liver and set up anywhere in Portland, Deering,
Cape Elizabeth, Yarmouth, Falmouth, Cumber-
land Mills and Saccarappa, G0rham, Biddeford,
Saco and the Islands, for just
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-25
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The Reading Room Association at
its last meeting decided To start u new
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man In Miles City should contribute
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enterprise a. q matter OF business, for
whatever builds up 3 town builds. up
every business man In proportion.
Strangers note the success of our read
ing room Ms compared with Others aud
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When subscriptions therefore shall br
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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-25

The annual encampment Of the
Montana department Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic took place at
Butte City on Tuesday last. Depart.
ment commander Chas. s. Warren,
was in the chair. and his report and
the reports of the other officers for the
past year were read and approved.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
Department Commander-E. c.
Waters, Of Billings, by unanimous
vote.
Senior ce.Commander-H. 8.
Howell. Virginia City-receiver OF the
United States land Office at Helena.
Junior Vice-C ommander-Harry c.
Kessler, Butte City.
DDelegate to National Encampmen,
p. r. Dolman, Of Butte.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-25

Since Wednesday. the first day Of
Lent. those who believe in the proper
observance Of the solemn season. have
Withdrawn from I! e social world for a
period Of nearly six weeks, and in
stead Of attending balls; evening
parties and receptions, will devote
themselves to attending the daily and
tri-daily services provided by the
church. There 10 q diversity Of opin-
ion among church members az 10 how
great an extent they may indulge In
social diversions and still maintain
the csnons Of the church. Some OF
the strictest observers OF the season Of
fasting and prayer" exclude them
selves entirely from society, while
others draw the line at Lepten teas;
but there are those with more flexible
consciences who can he induced to At
tend the opera.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-25

Train No. /, going west was. when
last heard from. laid out In the locality
of MIngusville, with no definite infor.
nation rs to how late 1t would be.
The trouble is caused by yesterdays
No. 2, being stuck in . snow drift.
ahead Of No. l, and there 10 no prob
ability Of q train from the east before
noon to-day. No. 2 is efiectually block
ed, and has been since noon yester.
day and No. ! cannot pass until No.
2 10 out OF the way.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-25

Notice 10 hereby given that
the partnership heretofore exist
ing between Dan Eisenberg aud
Lee Eisenberg under the firm
name and s:yle Of Dan Eiseu-
berg n Co., has been this day dissolved
by mutual consent, Mr.. Dan Eisenberg
Withdrawing from the firm. The busi.
ness will be conducted In the future by
Lee Eisenberg, who assumes all La
bilities Of the late firm and will collect
ell outstanding accounts due them.
All persons knowing themselves In
debted 10 the late firm will please call
aud settiejthebsme at their earliest pos-
sible convenience. DAN EIsENBERo.
LEE EIsEHBERa.
Miles City, NJ. T., Feb. lst 1887.